Browsing by Department "Special Education"
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(2011-12-10)Department: Special EducationThe purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of a Responsiveness-to-Intervention (RTI) Tier II tutoring program on first grade students who are at risk for reading disabilities. Ten students (8 boys and 2 girls) ...
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(2006-12-04)Department: Special EducationSPECIAL EDUCATION A COMPARISON OF DYNAMIC ASSESSMENT AND PROGRESS MONITORING IN THE PREDICTION OF READING ACHIEVEMENT FOR STUDENTS IN KINDERGARTEN AND FIRST GRADE ERIN CAFFREY Dissertation under the direction of Professor ...
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(2009-07-20)Department: Special EducationStudents at risk for developing externalizing behavior disorders (EBD) are among the most challenging students to teach. The combination of instructional and behavioral demands that students at risk for EBD place on their ...
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(2015-07-15)Department: Special EducationVideo modeling (VM) is an evidence-based intervention for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The purpose of this study was to analyze the relative effect of video modeling with versus without play narrations for ...
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(2012-07-23)Department: Special EducationLimited social interaction typically occurs between high school students with autism and their general education peers unless programming is introduced to promote interaction. However, few published social interaction ...
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(2023-07-20)Department: Special EducationThe purpose of this study was to explore and evaluate the necessary adaptations to the Family Behavior Support application (FBSApp) paired with collaborative coaching for Spanish-speaking families of young children with ...
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(2017-03-28)Department: Special EducationSPECIAL EDUCATION Adapting the Question Answer Relationship Strategy for Middle School Students with Intellectual Disabilities Kimberly A. Davidson Dissertation under the direction of Professor Christopher J. Lemons Much ...
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(2009-05-29)Department: Special EducationFrom the psychoanalytic literature, families of children who have died are likely to have replacement children. This study examines, in comparison to families of children without disabilities, whether families of children ...
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(2023-07-18)Department: Special EducationStudents with emotional/behavioral disorders (EBD) engage in patterns of emotional and behavioral dysregulation that interfere with their educational progress. School-based behavior specialists are responsible for conducting ...
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(2023-07-11)Department: Special EducationPromoting positive relationships among young children is an important step towards improving their long-term social and academic outcomes. Children who have low rates of interactions with peers, who are identified as ...
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(2014-07-22)Department: Special EducationChildren’s ability to use a spoon facilitates increased independence during mealtimes and greater control over the pace and quantity of food intake. Children with multiple disabilities including visual impairment (MDVI) ...
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(2022-02-01)Department: Special EducationIn a multi-year randomized control trial, paraeducators received targeted coaching and professional development to implement an individualized intervention for elementary or middle school students with intellectual and ...
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(2010-04-20)Department: Special EducationThe author presented an examination of teachers’ use of praise and reprimands in relation to student behaviors for students identified as exhibiting problem behaviors. Data were examined from student-centered observations ...
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(2010-08-05)Department: Special EducationThe purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of verbal rehearsal and graduated guidance as methods of teaching participants who were blind the chained behavior of street crossing. The participants ranged from ...
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(2013-07-17)Department: Special EducationAlthough the functional analysis (FA) remains the gold standard for identifying the function of problem behavior for students with disabilities, traditional FA procedures are typically costly in terms of time, resources, ...
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(2006-07-29)Department: Special EducationUsing a sample of children seen at two Tennessee Centers of Excellence for Children in State Custody (COE’s), this study examined characteristics of abused children with disabilities compared to abused children without ...
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(2018-03-28)Department: Special EducationChildren at-risk for emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) are likely to display problem behavior at higher frequencies than other children. Although early intervention may improve long term outcomes, children at-risk ...
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(2019-07-22)Department: Special EducationTier 2 behavioral interventions support the development and reinforcement of prosocial behaviors for at-risk students. While popular Tier 2 programs, like check-in check-out (CICO), increase positive adult attention and ...
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(2012-12-07)Department: Special EducationThe purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of individualized interventions for young children with persistent challenging behavior. Three children between the ages of 4 and 5 years participated in the ...
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(2022-03-25)Department: Special EducationFunctional Communication Training (FCT) aims to reduce rates of problem behavior by teaching clients to emit functionally equivalent mands and then teaching local verbal communities to reinforce manding and to place ...